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(hematology) A pathological, irregularly spiked red blood cell without central pallor.
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(American spelling, uncountable, pathology) A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
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(medicine) Significant size variation of blood cells
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(British spelling) Alternative spelling of aplastic anemia [(medicine, hematology) A rare disease in which the bone marrow and the hematopoietic stem cells that reside there are damaged, causing pancytopenia.]
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(medicine) An excess of band cells released by the bone marrow into the blood.
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(hematology) A condition where the quantity of basophils (basophil granulocytes) is abnormally elevated.
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(medicine) A deficiency in two of the three cell lines in the blood, namely erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets.
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(medicine) The presence of an abnormal number of dacrocytes in the blood.
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(hematology) An abnormally-shaped red blood cell with one or more semicircular portions removed from the cell margin, resulting from the removal of denatured hemoglobin by macrophages in the spleen.
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(pathology) Incorrect differentiation of cells, typically as a result of ageing
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(medicine) The condition of having a high concentration of eosinophils (eosinophil granulocytes) in the blood.
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(pathology) The presence of nucleated erythrocytes in the peripheral blood
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A decrease of red blood cells in a complete blood count.
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(pathology) A medical condition in which erythroblasts are abnormally found in the blood
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A medical condition where an Rh negative mother's antibodies attack the red blood cells of an Rh positive fetus.
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A medical condition where an rh negative mother's antibodies attack the red blood cells of an rh positive baby.
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(medicine) Erythropenia.
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(pathology) erythroid dysplasia (the presence of abnormal red blood cells)
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hemolysis of erythrocytes and subsequent release of hemoglobin
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A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia
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A rare congenital bleeding disorder caused by a reduction or absence of alpha-granules in blood platelets, and the release of proteins normally contained in these granules into the marrow, resulting in myelofibrosis.
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(pathology) The shedding of tears containing blood
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(pathology) having hematuria
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An inherited blood disorder in which, through a membrane defect, an abnormally large number of erythrocytes are elliptical, potentially leading to haemolytic anaemia.
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(medicine) Overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis.
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(pathology) An excessive number of cells in the blood or the tissues
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hyperfunction of the gonads
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(pathology) Relating to hyperlactemia
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(pathology) An excessive quantity of lymphocytes in the blood.
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Resembling leukemia, but triggered by stress, infection, etc. rather than actual malignancy.
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(medicine) Pertaining to deposits that include a combination of lipids and melanin.
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(pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood
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(medicine) The condition of having an abnormally reduced number of lymphocytes in the blood.
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(pathology) cytosis involving megakaryocytes
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Having or relating to myoglobinemia.
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(pathology) Initialism of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia: an abnormally low number of platelets in a newborn's blood, due to the mother's antibodies having been passed via the placenta and attacking the newborn's own platelets.
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(physiology, rare) The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
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(pathology) A reduction in the numbers of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the blood
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(medicine) The state of having increased concentrations of all three cell lines in the blood, i.e. concurrent polycythemia, leukocytosis and thrombocytosis.
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A disorder in which there is an abnormally high number of red blood cells in the bloodstream as a result of their having been prematurely released from the bone marrow during blood formation.
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(medicine) A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells.
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Alternative form of pseudopolycythaemia [(pathology) Uncontrolled and rapid cellular reproduction and maturation that causes proliferation or hyperplasia of all bone marrow cells]
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(medicine) The presence of pyknocytes in the blood.
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A form of hemolytic anemia characterized by an abnormal sensitivity of red blood cells to heat and erythrocyte morphology similar to that seen in thermal burns.
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(medicine) An increase in reticulocytes, commonly seen in anemia.
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(medicine) A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells.
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The deformation of red blood cells into an abnormal crescent shape.
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(pathology) A medical condition in which the red blood cells are globular spheres, rather than having the normal biconvex shape, and are therefore more prone to physical degradation, leading to hemolytic anemia
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Any of various conditions causing the outer membranes of red blood cells to leak sodium and potassium ions.
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(pathology) A form of myelosuppression
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Alternative form of thrombocythemia [thrombocytosis]
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Alternative form of thrombocytopenic [Having an abnormally low number of platelets in one's blood.]
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abnormality or disease of the thrombocytes
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(hematology) An abnormally low number of platelets in the blood.
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Alternative form of von Hippel–Lindau disease [(medicine) A type of angiophakomatosis, caused by certain DNA sequence variants (in the VHL gene).]
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